Running, she kept running when a vampire was playing prey and predator with her. In this immortal world, she was the mortal, and running was her only way to survive daily.

As she kept running, she suddenly bumped into someone—Vios Rheano Salvadior, her so-called best friend back when she was just little in the mortal world.

Vios looked at her, eyes widening slightly.

"How... Why are you here?"

He said, looking around when he spotted a vampire searching for her. Without waiting for her to respond, he hugged her before teleporting back to his place. He was a feared royal prince here in his mortal world.

After he knew she had calmed down, he began talking to her, learning how she ended up here and how long she had been here.

Lucky, she didn't fear him and accepted him for who he was—a half vampire and half phoenix, a rare combination.

She spent days with him, sneaking together, as the king would punish him for hiding a mortal with him, but he knew this moment wouldn't last long. While they were walking, her hand intertwined with his. Talking while walking towards their favorite tree back then. Unbeknownst to them, someone from the palace had seen them. Without hesitation, it reached the palace, the king.

After a moment of staying in that tree, he sensed something was wrong. Without hesitation, he teleported her sleeping form back to his place, carefully putting her to bed as he left and went to the palace, not knowing it would be his last moment with her.

In the palace, the king had punished him with imprisonment, where no one could see him. He pleaded not to, as he was the prince, but the king said, "A law is a law." The only thing he can do is try to fight back, but it is no use until he is locked up. The bizarre thing was, he's only alone there, but he can use his powers and can see how she's doing.

He can see right now that she was found by the royal guards, and the king himself used his power to send her back to the mortal world, telling her he was killed as punishment.

"No! No! No!" He yelled as he watched her being taken back to the mortal world, but he couldn't do anything but watch.

"Fuck, wait for me. I will return, I promise," he swore, as he knew soon he'd escape this place.

where they locked him up.